On 2005-10-07, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people?" > http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_50.html > A map from a US dialect survey. Click around for many more questions.
Cool. While we're on the topic, has anybody else noticed that "guys" is acceptible and commonly used to refer to a group of women, but the singular "guy" is never used to refer to a single woman (and most of the women I've asked think that "gal" or "gals" is insulting). Likewise, "dude" is often used when addressing a female but almost never when speaking about one in the third person. > The question was a bit broken, it did not list "all y'all" and its > most glaring omission was "yous guys" The Philly responders selected > the next best option of "yous" > > It is a bit odd that You'uns, yins, and yous are confined to Pennsylvania > and very distinct east-west regions inside PA at that (Pittsburgh vs > Philly orbits). Eastern and Western Pennsylvania are practically different countries when it comes to language and culture. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... The waitress's at UNIFORM sheds TARTAR SAUCE visi.com like an 8" by 10" GLOSSY... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list